DIRECT DIFFERENCE TEAM

Katherine Reese RN

Clinical Data Specialist & Account Manager

Katherine Reese is a Registered Nurse with more than a decade of progressive experience across nursing, utilization management, clinical appeals, case management, quality and performance improvement, and clinical data abstraction. Her diverse clinical and quality background provides a broad perspective on patient care, healthcare operations, regulatory requirements, and the importance of accurate clinical data.

Throughout her career, Katherine has held leadership and clinical roles in utilization management and hospital quality. Her experience includes FPPE and OPPE oversight, peer review, readmission and mortality review, regulatory surveys, denial management, and medical-necessity determinations. This combination of clinical and operational experience enables her to evaluate complex cases while maintaining a strong focus on clinical integrity, regulatory compliance, and quality outcomes.

In her role with Direct Difference, Katherine serves as an Account Manager and Clinical Data Specialist, managing a portfolio of approximately 30 healthcare facilities and coordinating clinical data abstractors across multiple programs. Her areas of responsibility include Sepsis, Stroke, Outpatient (OP) measures, Joint measures, electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs), and Tumor Registry abstraction. She provides client coordination, operational oversight, and quality support to promote accurate and timely data abstraction across diverse clinical programs.

Katherine brings a strong commitment to patient advocacy, clinical integrity, and safe, appropriate, high-quality care to her work with Direct Difference. Her experience spanning bedside nursing, complex case management, utilization review, quality improvement, and clinical data abstraction allows her to serve as a knowledgeable partner to hospital teams and support the reliable data needed for quality reporting and performance improvement.